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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] sched/uclamp: Fix relationship between uclamp and migration margin
Hi Xuewen

On 08/01/22 10:46, Xuewen Yan wrote:
> Hi Qais
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 12:25 AM Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> wrote:

[...]

> > I do have a patch to add kernel doc to better explain what uclamp is. Hopefully
> > I'll send this out soon. I've been sleeping on it for a long while but too many
> > things to do, too little time :-)
> Ah, Could this patch loop me in the future? I want to learn more from
> you, Thanks!

Will do! I'll be going on holidays soon, so hopefully once I'm back I'll be
able to post it.

[...]

> > > I agree with you, but I'm still a bit concerned that such a setup will
> > > cause performance issues.
> > > As you say, may one want the background tasks running on the little
> > > cpus, he can use cpuset to control them completely.
> >
> > We are actually hoping that we can enable using uclamp_max as weak affinity
> > instead of the aggressive cpusets. But there's still a bit more work to do
> > before we can get there.
> >
> > > When there are many processes in the system, if such processes always
> > > fit small cores, do we need to consider more when load balancing?
> >
> > Oh, you're worried about packing these tasks on small cores?
> >
> > We've looked at that, and this should be hard to happen.
> >
> > EAS will always distribute tasks on max_spare_capacity cpu in the performance
> > domain. Only exception I'm aware of is if a lot of tasks wake up at the same
> > time. Then there's a chance (race) they all see the same max_spare capacity
> > before any of these tasks gets enqueue to adjust the rq->util_avg.
> >
> > Packing can't happen outside of EAS AFAICT. The default behavior of the
> > scheduler is to distribute tasks on idle cpus or based on load.
> >
> > If we're in overutilized, then select_idle_capacity() should consider the idle
> > cpus only. And in load balance in general should distribute tasks based on
> > idle/load.
>
> Yes, you're right, I'm thinking a little bit less...Thanks!

It's complicated inter-relationship. Glad you asked! :-)


Thanks!

--
Qais Yousef

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